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Dundasite & Crocoite

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Dundasite & Crocoite

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Description
Locality: 
Kapi Mine, North Dundas, West Coast Municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.4 × 2.1 × 1.6 cm
Description

Brilliant snow white tuffed mats of dundasite crystals with doubly terminated orange crocoite crystals with some minor  yellow chrome cerussite crystals from the Dundas Mining Field, the namesake and type locality for dundasite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Dundasite

Formula: 
PbAl2(CO3)2(OH)4·H2O
Strunz: 
5.DB.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Adelaide Mine (Adelaide Pty Mine; Adelaide Proprietary Mine), Dundas mineral field, Zeehan District, Tasmania, Australia

Crocoite

Formula: 
Pb(CrO4)
Strunz: 
7.FA.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Tsvetnoi Mine, Uspenskaya Mt, Berezovskoe Au Deposit (Berezovsk Mines), Berezovskii (Berezovskii Zavod), Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...
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